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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim throw overboard in Chapter XXV?
(a) Israel Hands
(b) His journal
(c) The brandy
(d) The Jolly Roger

2. What does Jim see Israel hide in his jacket in Chapter XXVI?
(a) The wallet of the dead man
(b) A knife
(c) A pistol
(d) Brandy

3. Who joins the honest sailors at the end of Chapter XVI?
(a) Smollett
(b) Abraham
(c) Silver
(d) Tom

4. What accusation does Livesey make about Jim in Chapter XXX?
(a) That he is cowardly
(b) That he is a mutineer
(c) That he is the leader of the mutineers
(d) That he planned the mutiny for Silver

5. Who is pinned to the mast at the end of Chapter XXVI?
(a) Tom
(b) The dead watchman
(c) Israel
(d) An unnamed pirate

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks for Tom’s forgiveness in Chapter XVIII?

2. What does Jim want Israel Hands to consider him, according to Chapter XXV?

3. Whose voice reveals that the stockade is controlled by the pirates at the end of Chapter XXVII?

4. Why does Jim refuse to run from the pirates in Chapter XXX?

5. What weapon does Jim use to defend himself against Israel in Chapter XXVI?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Silver tell Jim about Dr. Livesey in Chapter XXVIII?

2. Why is the boat hard to maneuver in Chapter XVII?

3. Why does Jim take the coracle to the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

4. What does Jim go looking for in Chapter XXII?

5. What does Jim discover when he reaches the stockade at the end of Chapter XXVII?

6. Why do the pirates not notice that Jim cuts the anchor rope on the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

7. Why do Livesey and Hunter go ashore in Chapter XVI?

8. Why do the sailors say Tom has nothing to fear in the afterlife?

9. Who wants to throw the dead pirate overboard in Chapter XXVI?

10. What is the black spot Silver receives in Chapter XXIX, and what is it made from?

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